From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: David Kastrup Newsgroups: gmane.emacs.devel Subject: Re: Adding missing copyright years Date: Sat, 07 May 2005 07:29:24 +0200 Message-ID: <8564xv8uyz.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> References: <85mzraqm9k.fsf@lola.goethe.zz> <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> NNTP-Posting-Host: main.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: sea.gmane.org 1115443828 22686 80.91.229.2 (7 May 2005 05:30:28 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 05:30:28 +0000 (UTC) Cc: rms@gnu.org, emacs-devel@gnu.org Original-X-From: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Sat May 07 07:30:24 2005 Return-path: Original-Received: from lists.gnu.org ([199.232.76.165]) by ciao.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUHtN-0003vw-Ck for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 07:30:21 +0200 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lists.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUI1E-0008JG-PG for ged-emacs-devel@m.gmane.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:38:28 -0400 Original-Received: from mailman by lists.gnu.org with tmda-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUI0l-0008DN-FA for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:38:00 -0400 Original-Received: from exim by lists.gnu.org with spam-scanned (Exim 4.43) id 1DUI0f-0008AV-UF for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:37:54 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.173] (helo=monty-python.gnu.org) by lists.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.43) id 1DUI0e-00089P-OC for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:37:52 -0400 Original-Received: from [199.232.76.164] (helo=fencepost.gnu.org) by monty-python.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUI3c-0003HZ-C3 for emacs-devel@gnu.org; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:40:56 -0400 Original-Received: from localhost ([127.0.0.1] helo=lola.goethe.zz) by fencepost.gnu.org with esmtp (Exim 4.34) id 1DUHxP-00051s-6n; Sat, 07 May 2005 01:34:31 -0400 Original-Received: by lola.goethe.zz (Postfix, from userid 1002) id 66D931C46517; Sat, 7 May 2005 07:29:24 +0200 (CEST) Original-To: Nick Roberts In-Reply-To: <17020.9976.943092.382629@farnswood.snap.net.nz> (Nick Roberts's message of "Sat, 7 May 2005 14:24:56 +1200") User-Agent: Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) X-BeenThere: emacs-devel@gnu.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: "Emacs development discussions." List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Original-Sender: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Errors-To: emacs-devel-bounces+ged-emacs-devel=m.gmane.org@gnu.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.emacs.devel:36799 X-Report-Spam: http://spam.gmane.org/gmane.emacs.devel:36799 Nick Roberts writes: > > This can't be done completely mechanically, since one has to check > > when the last copyrightable changes (and not all changes are > > copyrightable) have been, correct? > > > > That's correct, aside from one subtle point. It's not that "not all > > changes are copyrightable" but rather that "not all changes are big > > enough to count for copyright purposes". So the question, for each > > year, is "were substantial changes made during that year". If yes, > > that year should be mentioned. > > > > Substantial means adding up to more than 10-15 lines of total change. > > Trying to reduce it to a formula for files whose history that we're > not familiar with: > > e.g choosing cmacexp.el at random > > cvs annotate cmacexp.el > files.ann > > grep "..-...-05" cmacexp.ann | wc > 13 104 962 > > 13 < 15 => don't add copyright year. > > What are the consequences of adding a year where no copyrightable changes > were made? Presumably this is less serious than not adding a year where > such changes were made. > > How about developing a script to update these changes automatically? Refilling a paragraph, reindenting and similar are purely mechanical (non-copyrightable) changes with possibly large numbers of changed lines. -- David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum